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DEFINITION: An individual, or an organization, which profits by selling fear of imminent global destruction and/or eternal damnation.
Verboticisms
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Flabberboshbomb
Created by: BellaRina
Pronunciation: F-L-A-B-ER-Boo-Sh-Boom
Sentence: please help donate 4$ bfore we haver a FlabberBoshBomb
Etymology: Flabber (FEar) Bosh(OF) Bomb(BOMb)
Terrorcorp
Created by: GreenTara
Pronunciation: Terror-Corp
Sentence: All the terrorcorps competed with one another to scare the public the most - for the most profit.
Etymology: terror-fear, corp-corporation
Mourdochity
Created by: tubeyes
Pronunciation: mer-dah-kit-ee
Sentence: Sean was quite happy when his televised rantings produced a state of general mourdochity over the TV watching public.
Etymology: Morbidity and Murdoch [of the Rubert persuasion]
Terramageddonist
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: tear-uh-muh-ged-un-ist
Sentence: We have stopped inviting Cathy to the beach with us. Her terramageddonist reminders of how the beach sand which sticks to our feet increases erosion and leads to the extinction of all sea turtles, is too much for us to bear.
Etymology: terra (Earth) + armegeddon (end of Earth) + ist (pertaining to a person/organization); also, the tie with "terror" and "terrorist"
Propheteers
Created by: marnee4nothin
Pronunciation: prau-fet-ears
Sentence: Cal hoped that his 'Save the Cumquat' campaign would establish his career among his fellow propheteers.
Etymology: prophet + profiteers
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COMMENTS:
Propheteers: they've been around since cocky was an egg. Now we have a great word for them. - OZZIEBOB, 2007-08-10: 21:57:00
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Fudbud
Created by: MrPlow42
Pronunciation: Fud - bud
Sentence: Those fudbuds are now trying to convince us that our dogs aren't getting enough cheese.
Etymology: F.U.D. - Information Technology term for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt. & Bud - friend.
Doomshark
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: DOOM-Shark
Sentence: Feelbad world, along with a daily dose of dread and damnation, flowed frenetically across the airwaves every evening, delivered by a diamond-dripping doomshark preaching tarabolical times ahead for mankind. But for those faithful who fawnishly followed this foolmonger, and his fickle-feel philosophy, there was much more to fear from him here on terra firma, for financial fleecing was his forte.
Etymology: A conflation of "doom": death, ruin, sad or evil destiny & "shark", (slangish): confidence trickster, parasite, crooked business person (as in land shark, loan shark).
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COMMENTS:
A is for alliteration. ;) - Kyoti, 2007-08-10: 11:03:00
I hate it i just wanted to vote because i know you wont win - BellaRina, 2007-08-10: 11:39:00
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Wrecksploitation
Created by: xtine
Pronunciation: reck-sploy-tay-shun
Sentence: Every time another climate based disaster occurred, Sally mounted another Google keyword ad campaign to collect donations, a shameless example of wrecksploitation.
Etymology: wreckage, exploitation
Manifeto
Created by: fensketo
Pronunciation: man-a-feet-oh
Sentence: Man if I wasn't manifeto I wouldn't be a loser!
Etymology: Man - Feet
Destructimination
Created by: kellii3
Pronunciation: destruct im in ation
Sentence: do not beleive all of the destructimination scams that people use to scare the money from us.
Etymology: destruct - destruct imin - imminent ation - destruction
Comments:
iwasatripwire - 2007-08-12: 01:27:00
repeat!